All through life, Alex has always felt that other people, schoolmates, friends and later colleagues, seemed to have it easier. Dad was never quite satisfied. It was hard to live up to his standards. Aunts and Uncles always knew a cousin who was better, brighter, richer, faster.
Alex, like you and me, would like to earn more, be recognized and respected. To enjoy life and have fun. To simply succeed.
Bridging the Gaps to Unity of Cohesion and Effort Between Tech Leadership and the Business
Dr John Kenworthy and Barbara Dossetter
The common ground is the frustrations with scope creep, budget specifications, programme management and poor leadership.
Unfortunately, this hasn’t changed in 40 years, and won’t change until both parties ante up to the bar properly. As the need for projects has exponentially increased, it’s seriously outrun our ability to field talented people to make this happen.
A few weeks ago I recorded a podcast about the Power of Trust to Succeed and many people wrote and asked why it is that you can do something with the very best intentions but find that it backfires.
It seems that it is very easy to lose someone’s trust but oh so difficult to gain it back.
Think of trust as a wallet full of cash.
I know that it’s rare to have such a thing, but imagine, OK?
Say I have a couple of thousand bucks in various bills in my trust wallet. Every time I do or say something that causes you to lose faith in me, to lose your trust, for whatever reason, is like asking you to take whatever amount of cash out of my wallet.
Of course, being a normal human being, you’ll take the 100 dollar bills first.
If, foolishly I hurt you in some way again, you’ll take another chunk from my wallet. A third time and you’ll probably take the wallet and empty it.
Now I have no trust with you. Is there any way I can influence you if you don’t trust me? Of course not.
Talent. Its the subject line of many an inbox message these days. All of us who belong to the great ecosystem of new talent development–universities, portfolio programs, thinktanks, agencies–and agency leaders, mentors, recruiters and talent managers, offer opinions about who we need now and ho…
by Maria Popova. “It’s a wonderful idea: thoroughly conscious ignorance.” “Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind,” I reflected in the first of my 7 life lessons from 7 years of Brain Pickings a notion hardly original and largely essential in life, yet one oh so difficult t…
All through life, Alex has always felt that other people, schoolmates, friends and later colleagues, seemed to have it easier. Dad was never quite satisfied. It was hard to live up to his standards. Aunts and Uncles always knew a cousin who was better, brighter, richer, faster.
